περιοχή
circuit
also: an encompassing, compass fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4042 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“circuit” is the headline sense of the Greek noun περιοχη (periochḗ). It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Acts. A true hapax — its single appearance is Acts 8:32. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “an encompassing” and “compass”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4042 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Place 1×
- American Standard Version: Now the passage 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Passage 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Passage 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4042 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4042 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4042 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4042 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- an encompassing, compass, circuit
- that which is contained
Word origin
Derived from περιεχω (periéchō) (G4023) — to surround.
From G4023 ; a being held around that is (concretely) a passage (of Scripture as circumscribed ): - place.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word περιοχη appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 11 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Samuel 22:4 περιοχή
- 2 Samuel 5:7 περιοχή
- 2 Kings 19:24 περιοχή
- 1 Chronicles 11:5 περιοχή
- 2 Chronicles 32:10 περιοχή
- Psalms 30:22 περιοχή
- Jeremiah 19:9 περιοχή
- Ezekiel 4:2 περιοχή
- Obadiah 1:1 περιοχή
- Nahum 3:14 περιοχή
- Zechariah 12:2 περιοχή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4042) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 22:4 περιοχή He brought them before the king of Moab: and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
- 1 Samuel 22:5 περιοχή The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold; depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
- 2 Samuel 5:7 περιοχή Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
- 2 Samuel 5:9 περιοχή David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built round about from Millo and inward.
- 2 Samuel 5:17 περιοχή When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.
- 2 Samuel 23:14 περιοχή David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
- 2 Kings 19:24 περιοχή I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
- 2 Kings 25:2 περιοχή So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
- 1 Chronicles 11:5 περιοχή The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
- 1 Chronicles 11:7 περιοχή David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.
- 2 Chronicles 32:10 περιοχή Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do you trust, that you abide the siege in Jerusalem?
- Psalms 30:22 περιοχή
- Psalms 59:11 περιοχή Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
- Psalms 107:11 περιοχή Because they rebelled against the words of God, And condemned the counsel of the Most High.
- Psalms 140:3 περιοχή They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
- Jeremiah 19:9 περιοχή I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.
- Jeremiah 28:30 περιοχή
- Ezekiel 4:2 περιοχή and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.
- Ezekiel 12:13 περιοχή My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
- Ezekiel 17:20 περιοχή I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
- Obadiah 1:1 περιοχή The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against her in battle.
- Nahum 3:14 περιοχή Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
- Zechariah 12:2 περιοχή "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4042) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
